ON THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. 



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body scaled except region between nape and dorsal, which is naked ; 

 breast naked. Longest dorsal spine Yi head, sometimes elongate ; 

 caudal 3}4 in body. Color, light greenish, sides of male with 5 or 6 

 narrow, straight, whitish or yellowish cross bars, regularly placed ; 4 

 dark bars on head, 3 below the eye and 1 on opercle ; a small, 

 dark spot behind and above opercle ; ventral fins barred ; female with 

 a row of irregular dark spots connected by a dusky streak, the pale 

 cross bars obsolete. ' ' 



Page 2217, "The commonest of all shore fishes in tropical Amer- 

 ica." With few exceptions small fish, or Minnow, used as bait. 



There are 120 species of this fish in Bulletin 47, but I describe 

 only two, as they are used in Florida only as bait, although some of 

 the species are edible in other localities. All the Gobies, except one 

 or two, are Minnows, and can be caught with cast nets and used as 

 bait. They are plenty in brackish water in Biscayne Bay. 



Illustration. Page. 



159. "ECHENEIS NAUCRATES." (PILOT.) 796 2269 

 Shark-sucker; This ig the i 0C ally-called "Pilot Fish," attached 



Regador • to Shark. Frequently as many as five or six on one 



Sucking-fish. Shark when the latter is caught. 



